harbour, while Lieutenant Beynon, R.M., and Mr. James Saunderson, master’s-mate, dislodged the enemy, and destroyed the custom-house and magazines. Never was gallantry more conspicuous than in the officers and men on this service, and I beg to recommend them to your favorable notice. Lieutenant Yates, an active and promising officer[1], I regret to add, was unfortunately killed, with one seaman and five marines wounded. The loss of the enemy was very considerable.”
“To Sir Edward Pellew, Bart., &c. &c.”
After commanding for some time the Gorgon 44, armed en flûte, at Port Mahon, the subject of this memoir was successively appointed acting captain of the Edinburgh 74, Undaunted and Euryalus frigates, and Caledonia first-rate, the latter ship bearing the flag of Sir Edward Pellew. He was subsequently placed by that officer in the Kite sloop, and sent to the Archipelago, where he destroyed a French privateer, rescued a valuable merchantman which she had captured, and obtained from the Bey of Salonica a promise, that in future no vessels of the same description should be equipped in his harbours. He afterwards commanded the Paulina sloop, in which he obtained restitution of two merchant vessels, taken by an American privateer and carried to Tripoli, where he remained watching the enemy until the final cessation of hostilities, thereby preventing her from giving any further annoyance to the British trade in the Mediterranean. The Paulina was paid off, at Deptford, towards the close of 1815, from which period we find no official mention of her late commander, until his advancement to the rank of captain, July 22d, 1830.
This officer married, first, in Jan. 1811, Sophia Henrietta, only child of the late Major William Duff, of H.M. 20th regiment, and daughter-in-law to Captain George Tobin, R.N., C.B. Secondly, in 1827, Eliza, daughter of the Rev. M. J. Hill, rector of Snailwell, in Cambridgeshire. His son, Rowland Mainwaring, midshipman of the Warspite 76, died at Port Jackson, of dysentery, Oct. 27th, 1826.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Son of Purser Thomas L. Yates, R.N.
